Dogs die after eating

poisoned meatballs

Fairfax County police are investigating the deaths of two dogs that ate toxic meatballs.

Officers responded to a home in Centreville on Wednesday evening after a 5-month-old pit bull puppy ate a meatball in its yard and became ill. Officers learned that an adult West Highland Terrier at a neighboring home had also ingested a meatball around the same time. Both dogs have since died.